Faith?

You know those cartoons where someone ties a string to a carrot and dangles it in front of the rabbit's nose? Every time the rabbit gets close, the carrot moves. Right now, we feel like that rabbit. Every time we think we're about to get near our little girl, our 'meeting' gets pushed off a little longer. So we must keep asking ourselves--are we putting our faith in God...or in this adoption? As emotionally difficult as the results may be, we want the first statement to be true. Our faith is in God, and in His sovereign plan for our family.

So tomorrow afternoon at 4:00, we will find out His plan. We are scheduled to meet our social worker and our birthmom in the hospital waiting room. (The birthmom and social worker are meeting elsewhere at 3:00 to sign the 'surrender' paperwork.) Our birthmom has requested that she gets to personally hand our little girl over to us. Then we'll have the hospital discharge paperwork to sign, and this part of the adoption will be complete. We'll be free to take Elsie home.

Please pray with us that we will completely surrender to God's plan, and that what is best for this baby will be done.